ready for the big day

We seem to have a year of weddings this year,

with lots of friends and family members getting married.

In May, my husband's cousin is getting married,

which means not only new threads for the hubby and I

but also cute mini outfits for the kiddos too.

And the probably excites me more than it should!

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four

Four years ago, this happened...

The best day I've ever had.

Where I married my best friend

and we started our happily ever after.

My lovely brother put this photo montage together for us

the day after our wedding.

And watching it today just brought tears to my eyes.

It really was our perfect day.

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thirty years ago today...

my very own mummy and daddy

thirty years ago today

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inspired - displaying photographs

I absolutely love photographs.

I love that you can capture a moment

and keep it forever.

However I am very bad at actually making hard copies of my many photographs.

I have had grand plans to make a book of the little guy's first year

but am yet to do it and his birthday was nearly two months ago.

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my bestest friend

To the wonderful man 

who looks after me,

who laughs with me,

who shares my joys,

who holds my hand,

who has given me many happy years

as his girlfriend,

then his fiancée

and then his wife,

who has given me the most beautiful gift;

a family,

who gives the best hugs in the whole world,

who proposed to me four years ago today,

and who still makes my heart go flutter when he smiles.

Thank-you.

I love you with all my heart.

x x x

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love and marriage

I love marriage.

I'm a real advocate of it.

And I read something recently that really got me thinking about marriage.

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new year, new adventures

Did you miss me?

I've been gone for more than a week,

which is the longest I've gone without blogging

since I started just over six months ago.

In six months

this blog has burrowed it's way into me.

I think about it.

I talk about it.

I never get bored of it.

I dream about it.

I dare say, I might even love it a little bit.
So I've missed it.
And I'm very glad to be back.

We had a fantastic Christmas.
We were together and happy,
surrounded by our favourite people
having fun,
making memories
and being blessed with much more than we deserve.
Who could ask for more?

I've taken enough photos to start a gallery
and I'm sure that I'll be posting up more than one post over the next week or so
with run downs of all our festive goings on.

But when I said I'd be back blogging in the New Year, I meant it.
2012 is only minutes old
and I'm going to share my New Years' Challenge with you all.

I don't believe in New Years' Resolutions.

They just set you up to fail.

But each year I do set myself a little challenge.

So instead of turning over a new leaf each year,

I simply add a new something.

Last year as the clock struck midnight and 2011 started,

I set myself the simple challenge of becoming a mummy.

At nearly eight months pregnant

it seemed pretty achievable.

All I had to do was get that baby out of me

and then love it and care for it.

I think it's safe to say that I completed last year's challenge

and I continue to complete it each and every day.

As 2010 appeared

I told myself that this would be the year

that I finally became the owner
of a pair of RayBan Aviator sunglasses.

Yes, this was my challenge for the year.

I did that one too.

At the beginning of 2009 I challenged myself

to make my wedding day as fun and special and memorable as I possibly could.

I can only speak for myself
but I'm pretty sure that my husband would agree

that our wedding in 2009 was everything we wanted and more.

So this year I needed a challenge.

And with no impending life-changing events on the horizon this year,
and no money for expensive purchases,

I decided to go for a proper challenge.

So throughout 2012 I will be documenting One Beautiful Year.

I will be taking a photograph each and every day,

and I will be posting it up
so that you get to have a little snapshot into our day-to-day lives.

If you want to follow my little challenge
then pop over to One Beautiful Year
and subscribe.
Then you'll get 366 photos of loveliness from my own fair hand.
Enough photos to see you through til 2013.
I'm pretty sure the little guy will feature,
and the fluffy babies,
and perhaps even the odd self portrait if you're really, really lucky.

Happy New Year.
It's going to be a year of photography for me.

x

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music as therapy

I've been tagged by Mum2babyinsomniac and Boo and Me 

to join in with Mammy Woo's Music Therapy meme.

And anyone who had read my Soundtrack of Life posts

will know that music has a very special place in my heart.

Music has the words when that I can't find.

So this meme is right up my street.

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soundtrack of life: song fourteen

The music that you listen to and surround yourself with is the soundtrack to your life.

But right now, Little Man, you are just too little to really know about it.

Other than that you like listening to it.

And that you like Mummy singing to it.

Which probably means that your musical tastes still need to be developed a bit.

Each week Mummy and Daddy are choosing a song which has some significance to you.

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my best day

Picking one best day is so tricky.

I have been so fortunate in my life

and I have been blessed 

with many special memories 

and many wonderful days.

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a happy memory

I have many happy memories with my little boy.

He has changed our lives completely 

and it seems like everyday there is another memory 

that I want to capture and keep forever.

But when we're talking of real happy memory making days

I don't really think I've had a better one than my wedding.

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